A doctor who achieved a near-perfect score on the medical-board exam shares his 6 best strategies to memorise any kind of information

In 2002, he achieved a near-perfect score on the medical-board exam. To prepare, Dr. Bose would quiz himself frequently, spacing out information and scrambling the order in which he learned it.

He told Business Insider how he uses those same memory tricks today to remember names or give presentations as a public speaker.

The human brain has 100 billion neurons making trillions of connections – but somehow, you still can’t remember your new coworker’s name.

“I remember things in ridiculous ways,” Dr. Sudip Bose told Business Insider. “I mean, I have a mnemonic to get dressed in the morning, like UPS: underwear, pants, socks.”

In 2002, Dr. Bose achieved a near-perfect score on the medical-board exam, out-scoring 3,650 other test takers. To prepare, he would quiz himself frequently, spacing out information and scrambling the order in which he learned it. Dr. Bose is also a former major in the US Army (he’s an Iraq War veteran known for treating Saddam Hussein after US capture), and he told Business Insider a lot of his memorization techniques came from military training – he would picture his drill sergeant in front of him when he studied.